This is the moment an unsuspecting bird is ambushed by his mate as they hunted for fish in the Gulf of Mexico. The young Reddish Egret was wading through the waves to try and catch the bait fish which ...

, and found an unexpected surprise -- a third New Jersey record of a reddish egret. The bird was a juvenile and quite drab, which makes identification difficult. Adult birds of this species usually ...

Two rare reddish egrets on Florida's Gulf Coast. A lethal Gulf Coast red tide that littered beaches with dead wildlife in 2018 is back and this time around, it's claiming one of North America's rarest ...

Unless you live on the water, you probably don’t see a lot of egrets and herons in your backyard. These are mostly wetlands birds, made for foraging in the shallows with their long leg legs and ...

The reddish egret, whose elegant plumage caused it to be wiped out in Florida 85 years ago, is making a timid comeback on Honeymoon Island. Three of the birds have been seen there, and they are a ...

Demand for fashionable hats almost wiped out one of North America's rarest birds. Now Florida biologists want to establish a baseline for the reddish egret's population to make sure the bird with the ...

THIBODAUX — They stride along bayousides, glide in our skies and stumble through pastures, just about everywhere in Louisiana's coastal parishes. And the good news for admirers of the egret is that ...

Watching a Reddish Egret dance through the shallow water in search of food is a wildlife photographers dream. They spread their wings into a canopy while they hunt. It's a sudden split second movement ...

"We suspect that there are population declines in the last 15 or 20 years," said Andrew Cox, a biologist at the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission. "This is a species that is currently ...